Qualman, Eric. (2009) Socialnomics: how social media transforms the way we live and do business. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey
Journal Title: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology - Year 2010, Vol 1, Issue 2
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Authors and Affiliations
Monica Costache
Analyzing social movements from multiple perspectives: Key concepts and methodologies of study
Social movements happen worldwide nowadays. They have clear or diffuse motives, imply innovative or familiar sorts of manifestations. The study of social movement can be found in sociology, social psychology, economics,...
The materiality of knowledge production
The following paper is based upon fifteen months of participatory ethnographic fieldwork within an NGO in Rajasthan, India. Based within a solar photovoltaic workshop for the production of lanterns and the training of ‘s...
Social closure and discriminatory practices related to the Roma minority in the Czech Republic through the perspective of national and European institutions
While differentiating among notions of social exclusion, social closure and bridging social capital, the article analyses the evolution of cultural and social borders between the Czech majority on the one hand and the Ro...
Fat, fire and fluids: a research note on the objects in the everyday life of a beauty salon
This research note brings together two “lost and found” items in social theory: “the body” and the “the object”. The goal is to explain how body objectification is being produced in the hybrid social space of a beauty ce...
Rational choice in field archaelology
In the present article I attempt to apply advances in the study of instrumental and epistemic rationality to field archaeology in order to gain insights into the ways archaeologists reason. The cognitive processes, parti...